On Monday 21 November 2005 10:48, Vassilii Khachaturov wrote: > I'm looking for a decent set of joystick and pedals to use > with FG on a Linux x86 box. For local availability reasons, > I'd prefer this to be either MS or Logitech products, > but using other manufacturer's produce is possible, > albeit incurring several extra weeks of wait. > Please recommend me systems that you know of as working.
Well, a good indicator would be the existence of a config file in the flightgear Input/Joysticks directories. Basically, all standard analogue gameport sticks should work, and pretty much any standard USB HID stick should also work. I have a Logitech Wingman Force3D which works, but wouldn't particularly recommend it. > The setting is noble --- I'm trying to lure B.Sc. students > into doing mini-projects around flightgear, so that > successful contributions back to the flightgear project > could be made. Great idea... > is it at all possible to find consumer-grade pedals > that, like in the real airplane, are interconnected (i.e., > pressing the left makes the right one depressed and vice versa)? I'm sure it is, but the cost of commercial rudder pedals seemed ridiculous to me, so I made my own which work in a realistic manner and are sensibly sized. I'm assuming you're at a university; when I worked at a university, we had technicians employed to build things for student projects etc... There are lots of different ideas and plans on the net, but the pedals I built are really quite straightforward and very effective. Anyone with basic metalwork skills and the ability to solder could make similar ones very easily. The only electrical component required for analogue pedals (without toe brakes; the plane I'm modelling just now has stick brakes anyway) is a single good quality potentiometer. Others may be able to recommend one of the commercial offerings. > Also, I wonder if the "force feedback" feature is used > by flightgear? Not to my knowledge... I seem to recall that someone did have a force feedback support hack for a related project - maybe openGC? AJ _______________________________________________ Flightgear-users mailing list [email protected] http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-users 2f585eeea02e2c79d7b1d8c4963bae2d
